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Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.
We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.
any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.
Broadcasting through 9/11 together, like Katie Couric and I did, creates a bond.
I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.
It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.
... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation
Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.
Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.
A fun read that reminds single girls everywhere that it's fabulous to be single.
It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.
Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.
Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.
The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability
A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.